Juno News - Poilievre Derangement Syndrome reaches a new high

Pierre Polyev's Conservative Party has more than 311,000 members, dwarfing any previous conservative party that has ever attempted to do so before. The media have been quick to point out that these numbers are a little low compared to Justin Trudeau's previous record of 150,000-160,000 supporters. But as Harrison points out, there's a big difference between those numbers and those of a liberal party. Plus, a new piece from the Globe and Mail's Gary Mason on Pierre Palliev.

00:00:00.000 Well Harrison, I want to talk about Polyev derangement syndrome. We had an entire episode

00:00:04.420 of the show on it a few weeks ago and it continues to thrive and so I covered this in my show earlier

00:00:10.000 this week in an interview with Hamish Marshall where we talked about how the conservative

00:00:14.300 numbers have just blown everyone's figures out of the park. 600,000 members, Pierre Polyev

00:00:19.420 claims 311,958 on his website alone. This is dwarfing any previous leadership race,

00:00:27.440 any previous number of memberships sold by a political party and it's so interesting to see

00:00:33.400 how the media narrative has been proven wrong, Harrison, because remember at first when we saw

00:00:37.660 those big rallies at the Pierre Polyev campaign, the media sort of tried to downplay it. They tried

00:00:43.280 to dismiss it. At first they said that, oh, these big rallies are really just, you know, riding the

00:00:49.580 coattails of the trekker convoy, that these people aren't partisan, they're never going to sign up for

00:00:54.080 members, that Pierre's campaign is really disorganized and they wouldn't be able to have

00:00:58.160 the groundwork. Well, that was all proven wrong based on this claim from Jenny Byrne, Polyev's

00:01:03.320 campaign advisor, that no, no, all of those things are wrong. Of course, my favorite narrative about

00:01:09.160 the Pierre Polyev rallies with the media said that they were too white and that somehow discredited

00:01:14.520 them because of the people, the skin color of the people who go to your rallies apparently can be

00:01:18.920 discrediting. And so it's really interesting, of course, to compare how Polyev and in the

00:01:24.520 conservative leadership race in general, you know, you see the media downplay it, compare it to how

00:01:29.120 they covered Justin Trudeau. A lot of people have been talking about this because back in 2013,

00:01:33.800 Justin Trudeau claimed that his campaign had signed up 150 to 160,000 people and the media were like

00:01:40.260 blown away. They were celebrating. They thought this was like a tremendous feat and that it showed how

00:01:45.080 energetic Trudeau's fan base was and how he was so engaging and how he had this, this big, all this

00:01:51.060 momentum, right? Recall that the liberals don't charge anything for their membership. So all you

00:01:56.820 really had to do is just like get someone to write down their name and email address and they didn't

00:02:00.680 have to put any skin in the game, right? Compare that to Pierre and the conservative party where you

00:02:05.440 have to pay at least 15 bucks. So you're not just some random person off the street. You have to have

00:02:09.840 that level of commitment to say, I'm willing to part with some of my own money to show that I support

00:02:14.600 this candidate. So just so many aspects of what the media had said all along proving to be false,

00:02:20.820 but the media being the media, they just can't let it go. And so they continue along this line,

00:02:26.220 along this reasoning. Almost all of the news stories that I saw about the conservative numbers,

00:02:31.440 they always say conservatives claim or, you know, you see it right in the built into the headline that

00:02:37.320 this is a claim that it's not verified, never trusted politician. Don Iveson had a piece

00:02:41.400 over in the National Post. And he said that no one really knows the real numbers. It's a good rule

00:02:46.580 of thumb in journalism to never believe anything that politicians or political parties say.

00:02:51.000 You have to be professional skepticism. That's all well and good. And that is all true.

00:02:54.460 You do need to preface it. But the emphasis is there, right? Just compare this to even just a

00:02:59.360 story we just talked about, right? Mendicino's out there changing his story, being contradicted left,

00:03:03.400 right and center. And the media still runs with whatever the liberals say. That's the fact.

00:03:07.420 And then whenever a conservative says something, they always say allegedly or conservatives say

00:03:12.240 or candidates claim, having that suffix there just to say, well, just to plant some doubt in the

00:03:19.180 reader's mind. Like, we don't really believe this. This is just what they're saying. And that double

00:03:23.660 standard is there. And then we have another piece, Harrison, from our friend Gary Mason over at the

00:03:28.320 Globe and Mail. He wrote the most arranged piece a couple of weeks ago about Pierre Palliev. Well,

00:03:32.960 he continues down that line. So I'll read a little bit from this column. He says, say what you will

00:03:38.280 about Mr. Palliev's policies, many of which range from disturbing to all out bonkers. His campaign is

00:03:44.680 a well-oiled machine. So he's sort of reluctantly saying that Pierre Palliev is good at his job.

00:03:49.940 Can't help but throwing in that apparently his policies range from disturbing to bonkers. Okay.

00:03:54.800 And he says, basically, Pierre Palliev's good fortune his supporters don't see his own hypocrisy.

00:03:59.600 He says, this is my favorite line from the piece. Mr. Palliev is also a phony when it comes to his 0.93

00:04:05.460 policies. His oft-stated intention to make Canada the freest country on earth certainly had an

00:04:10.280 appealing ring to the mostly white protesters who participated in the self-described freedom

00:04:14.400 convoy earlier this year, to whom he pandered shamelessly. So you can't even come up with anything

00:04:19.820 neutral or, I mean, this is just flat out anti-conservative hatred and bigotry masquerading

00:04:27.560 as journalism. What do you make of all this, Harrison? Well, it totally is, Candice. And I

00:04:32.340 mean, this is just what we've come to expect over these past few months. One thing I just don't

00:04:36.520 really understand, though, is that you're seeing the same amount of, you know, you're seeing the

00:04:41.280 same sort of vitriol and the same amount of negative coverage from the legacy media that you

00:04:45.760 would see directed to people like Maxime Bernier. Pierre Palliev's campaign is staffed by pretty

00:04:52.360 establishment figures in conservative politics. People who have been around for many years who

00:04:57.100 have names inside conservative politics and journalists know that. Pierre Palliev is not

00:05:02.020 running some outsider anti-establishment campaign. He's very much running from the inside of the

00:05:08.620 conservative party. And it just so happens to be that right now, Canada is going through a major

00:05:13.080 moment where we have a leader that has essentially, you know, severely damaged the trust of government

00:05:19.820 people and has shown them that their charter rights, frankly, aren't that protected. So of

00:05:24.980 course, a good candidate is going to jump on that and make it part of his campaign. But it's just it's

00:05:29.100 just kind of weird to me that the legacy media have decided to attack Pierre Palliev so much and

00:05:35.980 almost go go as far as to put him in the same category as someone like Maxime Bernier. It's kind of

00:05:41.540 surprising to me knowing who's a part of Pierre's campaign.

Juno News - June 13, 2022

Poilievre Derangement Syndrome reaches a new high

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